Impeachment Or Indictment: Is a Sitting President Subject to the Compulsory Criminal Process? : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session ... September 9, 1998, Band 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1999 - 242 Seiten |
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Aaron Burr acts Amar arguing argument Article Attorney cert charges Clause Clinton committee Congress CONSTITUTIONAL LAW QUARTERLY convicted crime criminal process criminal prosecution David Johnston debate defendant denied dent duties evidence executive branch federal judges Framers Freedman functions grand jury HASTINGS CONSTITUTIONAL LAW House of Representatives immunity from criminal immunity from indictment impeachment impeachment process independent counsel indicting a sitting indictment infra investigation issue jail Jonathan Turley judicial Justice KING AS LAW LAW AS KING legislative Leon Jaworski liable ment offenses officeholder peachment Poindexter political President Nixon President's Presidential immunity privilege proceedings Professor punishment question Reagan removal from office Richard Nixon rule of law Section Senator ASHCROFT Senator TORRICELLI sentenced separation of powers sitting President subject to indictment subpoena Supreme Court Testimony of Eric text accompanying notes Thomas Jefferson tion trial Twenty-Fifth Amendment United Vice President Virginia Ratifying Convention Watergate William Maclay
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Seite 74 - Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office...
Seite 148 - Whenever the President transmits to the president pro tempore of the Senate and speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as acting President.
Seite 74 - ... Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within fortyeight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twentyone days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office...
Seite 204 - No man in this country is so high that he is above the law. No officer of the law may set that law at defiance with impunity. All the officers of the government, from the highest to the lowest, are creatures of the law, and are bound to obey it. It is the only supreme power in our system of government, and every man who by accepting office participates in its functions is only the more strongly bound to submit to that supremacy, and to observe the limitations which it imposes upon the exercise of...
Seite 43 - I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times.
Seite 108 - Britain. Yet that we may not appear to be defective even in earthly honors, let a day be solemnly set apart for proclaiming the Charter; let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the Word of God; let a Crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW 1s KING. For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to BE king, and there ought to be no other.
Seite 141 - We therefore hold that government officials performing discretionary functions generally are shielded from liability for civil damages insofar as their conduct does not violate clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known.
Seite 74 - Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide...
Seite 193 - If we apply the principle for which the State of Maryland contends, to the Constitution generally, we shall find it capable of changing totally the character of that instrument. We shall find it capable of arresting all the measures of the Government, and of prostrating it at the foot of the States.
Seite 115 - They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well : I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading : and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead.